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Visual effects in OBS are easy.
We can zoom in the camera or even move it around the screen.
It's really easy to do.
We can use animated masks or animated camera borders.
We can remove and replace our back around without a green screen.
And we can even put a camera tracker on our face that makes it look
like we have a camera operator when we don't.
It's really, really cool.
And all of this is with some great tools that are totally free.
Today, I'm gonna show you my five favorite visual effects in OBS, and
they are so easy.
So you know what?
Let's get to it.
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Everything I'm gonna talk about today has a link in the description so
you can download it and check it out for yourself.
And of course, links to more detailed videos so you can learn more
about each of these plugin.
You can easily zoom your camera with the move transition it's free and
easy to use.
The move transition is awesome because of course you can create great
transitions but you can also move your camera around the scene in all
kinds of different ways, using nothing but hot keys.
Here, I'm showing you how I can shrink my camera up, move it around
the screen and even zoom in.
So how do you do this?
Well, you've gotta install the move transition, obviously.
And there's another video for that, that you can check out in the
description, but it's a pretty simple process, once you have it
installed, I'm gonna right click on the scene where I want the camera
to move and I'm gonna select filters.
Then I'm gonna click the plus and select move sources.
And I'm gonna name where I want to move it so I remember in this case,
we're gonna call it center.
I'm gonna click, okay.
Now you can adjust these just by clicking the little eyeballs over
here to activate them.
And what I'm gonna do is select one of the ones we already have that's
small and move our camera into the center and I'm gonna make sure
that's selected.
I'm gonna go here to the transform and I'm gonna click get transform.
Then I'm gonna scroll down here and for our start trigger and I'm
gonna select enable when the eye icon in the front of the filter is
enabled.
And that's all I need to do.
You could see when I go over here, if I do just click on these eyes,
it moves it around to all the different locations.
And when I get to the center one, it'll move it into the center.
So I can just click close on this.
And now all we have to do is set up a hot key.
So I'm gonna go into settings, hot keys, and then I'm gonna scroll
down to my scene and I'm just gonna find the one labeled center.
And I'm gonna go ahead and put my hot key in there and then I can
apply and click okay.
And now we can use those hot keys to move our camera around into the
center and even zoom it in pretty awesome stuff.
I love to use animated camera masks in my live streams, but they can
be used on any source.
Let me show you how they work.
So to start recording this, I put the zoom camera we created
previously in a nested scene and the main camera in another scene.
And now I'm going to create a third scene and we're going to call this
a nested scene as well.
We're gonna call it the NS dash spike cam and click okay, then I'm
gonna add one more here.
And this is going to be NS dash spike mask.
We're going to put the mask in its own scene.
Once we're done with that, all I have to do is click okay.
Now I'm going to click the plus under the mask source and go to media
sources.
Then I'm gonna just name this mask one and click, okay.
Now I just need to browse to find the mask I already created select
it. Then I'm going to click loop.
So it keeps moving over and over again and click okay.
So that's what our mask looks like.
I'm gonna go into our spike cam.
I'm gonna click the plus and I'm going to select mirror source.
And we're gonna talk a lot more about mirror sources later, but you
could just select the camera here that you already created if you
choose.
So I'm gonna name my mirror source.
So I know what it is.
We're gonna call it spike cam, and I'm gonna click, okay, I'm gonna
drop this down and select our cam source.
And generally for these, you may not want to enable the audio.
You might want to just add your own audio.
It is up to you.
I'm going to click.
Okay.
And now all I have to do is right click on the source, go to filters
and click the plus under effect filters.
And I'm going to grab my dynamic mask and we can name this.
I'm gonna call it spikes and click okay.
Then we select our spike mask right here with this dropdown.
So we're going to select mask one source, and we're going to scroll
all the way down to the bottom.
And we're going to select the green input under the alpha channel.
And we're just going to give it a minus one.
And it's simply, you can just select here and type minus one on your
keyboard, or you can use the slider, whatever works for you.
And when we click close, you can see our spike mask is up and running.
It's awesome.
And the spike mask is using a plugin called stream FX.
And you can find out how to create the spike mask and install the
plugin in a video that it's down below in the description.
You can just click on that link.
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Now back to the OBS effects, the third one is so simple, but it can
make a huge visual difference in your live streams.
The first thing we're gonna do with this one is create a new nested
scene.
I'm gonna call this one N G animated cam border and click, okay, then
I'm gonna click the plus and I'm gonna add a camera.
I'm gonna use the source mirror to add the camera and I'm gonna name
our new source mirror border cam.
And I'm going to select our cam source in the dropdown.
Now I'm going to go ahead and shrink it up just a little bit, and I'm
gonna click the plus I'm gonna add a media source.
We're gonna call this media source border, and I'm just gonna go and
select a video.
It can be any video that has any sort of motion or movement, and we're
gonna loop that video and click, okay.
And that is the full video that you see right there.
We're gonna just drag it below and we're gonna kind of resize this.
And the goal here is just to get a light edge border around the edge
of our camera.
And if you wanna make sure that the borders look more, even you can
use the alt key to kind of adjust them up a little bit by cropping one
edge or the other with the alt key.
So you just hold down the alt and you drag the little points.
And once you get this situated, the way that you want it with your
animated border around the edges, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
create a main scene.
So I'm just gonna click the plus under scenes.
I'm gonna name this scene main click, okay.
I can click the plus go to scenes and I can add in our animated cam
border and click, okay, there you go.
You can see what it looks like, and I'll just shrink it down here.
And once I unselect it so that you're not seeing the red edges, you
can see what the animated border looks like.
It looks pretty awesome, but you know what?
We've done a couple of other things here.
Let's add those in as well.
So I'm just going to click plus I'm going to add a scene and we will
add our spike mask.
Okay.
We'll shrink that up.
As you can see, one of these effects doesn't affect the other effects.
And we'll talk about why that is a little bit later, but using a
nested scene allows us to add all of these different effects in there.
And you could see even the one with the move transition is added
separately and does not affect the other two effects, which means we
can use all of these in completely separate scenes to have different
effects in each scene.
You can remove your background without a green screen, and there are
actually a few different ways to do it in OBS the method that I'm
going to show you is one that works really well, but it also requires
an Nvidia graphics card.
There are two other methods that work without an Nvidia graphics card
and should work on any machine.
They'll be linked in the description below.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is create a new scene, and this is
gonna be a nested scene as well.
We're just gonna call this N S background, click, okay, then I'm gonna
click the plus.
And I'm gonna go to my source mirror once again.
And we're gonna call this source mirror background cam click, okay.
I'm gonna drop this down and select my cam source again and click,
okay, then I'm gonna right click on the background cam, and I'm gonna
go to filters.
Now I'm gonna click the plus and I'm gonna select virtual green screen
and click okay.
And there's really not much to change here.
Uh, I'm gonna leave it in quality mode.
You can put it in performance if you like, but quality seems to work
better.
And then I'm going to select the Nvidia option right here and click
continue. And there you go.
Now my hair has lots of frills and stuff hanging out.
So we're gonna get a little bit of the blue background through that.
But if you have short hair or hair, that's not quite as flippy, yours
will look even better than what this looks.
Now I'm gonna click the plus and I'm gonna add a media source, and I'm
just gonna call this background and click okay.
I'm gonna browse to a background that I want to use.
Click open.
I'll go ahead and loop it and click okay, we'll move it below our
camera.
There we go.
And I'm just gonna shrink up my camera a little bit as I would use it
in a regular scene.
And there we go.
So now we can flip over to our main scene and we'll go and click the
plus and we'll add scenes.
And I'm going to go ahead and add our background removal scene, and
we'll shrink it up, put it up here.
And as you can see, once again, this does not affect any of the other
cameras that we've already set up.
I absolutely love the face tracking effect.
It makes it look like someone is operating the camera, even though
they're not, it's all in the software.
The face track feature is another epic one.
It's so easy to use, but it does require an Nvidia graphics card.
It also uses the stream FX.
So I'm gonna click the plus down in the bottom left to add a new
scene, we're gonna add a nested scene.
This one's gonna be called NS face track.
Then over in sources, we're gonna click the plus we're once again,
going to select source mirror and I'm going to call this one face
track cam click, okay.
Gonna drop this down and select my original cam source once again and
click, okay.
Now in this case, I'm gonna right click on the scene for this, and I'm
gonna select filters.
I'm gonna click the plus and go all the way to the top where it says
auto framing, and I'm gonna select that and click okay.
And there are bunches of settings in here, and you could play around
with them to get the look that you want.
I'm just going to select the preset and video down here, and then
I'm gonna change this up instead of having a 16 by nine camera.
I want more of a square camera.
So I'm gonna go ahead and select a square aspect ratio here, but you
can use different ones like this one right here.
This is a 19 by six.
And if I just select a regular 16 by nine, and I can show you that it
does track your face and all that kind of stuff, go back in here one
more time and select a square aspect, ratio and click okay.
Now we can flip over into our main scene.
We'll move the spike face cam a little bit, and I'm gonna click
sources and go into scene and I'm going to select my face track and we
can just shrink it up.
And once again, you can see that it will track my face and it does not
have an effect on any of the other cameras.
There is a link in the description.
If you wanna know more about this feature and it is really cool and
easy to use.
Now, the bonus effect is a must have.
If you wanna use a lot of different effects for your camera in the
same stream.
Now this bonus visual feature is what I've been using throughout this
entire video.
And that is the source mirror.
If I had done a lot of these effects directly on the camera, you would
only be able to do it once.
And then every time you use that camera in a scene, it's going to have
that effect.
But if you use the source mirror, you can apply different effects to
the exact same camera, which means that you can have all kinds of
different camera effects in your live streams.
Like I said, if I applied the spike mask to the original camera, every
scene that I used that camera in would use the spike mask, but by
using stream effects, source mirror, I'm able to create all of these
different effects with all these cameras and use them in the same
scene or in different scenes to add a lot more variety to my live
stream.
And it's a game changer.
If you wanna learn more about other ways to remove your background
without a green screen, you should check these videos out.
Big thanks to the channel sponsors.
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My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.